Belgium has dropped nuclear phaseout plans adopted over two decades ago. Previously, it had delayed the phaseout for 10 years over the energy uncertainty triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Belgium’s parliament on Thursday voted to drop the country’s planned nuclear phaseout.
In 2003, Belgium passed a law for the gradual phaseout of nuclear energy. The law stipulated that nuclear power plants were to be closed by 2025 at the latest, while prohibiting the construction of new reactors.
In 2022, Belgium delayed the phaseout by 10 years, with plans to run one reactor in each of its two plants as a backup due to energy uncertainty triggered by Russia’s war in Ukraine.
https://www.bund.net/fileadmin/user_upload_bund/publikationen/atomkraft/20220927_BASK_Papier_Unsichbare_Opfer_der_Atomkraftnutzung.pdf
no. dead kids are not “political”… they are dead.
sorry that study is in german, but the author would have been killed in second world countries like the US for speaking out loud.
there is not one reactor on the planet that is safe or did not kill ppl. not one.
Did I miss something or are we moving the goalposts from dirty to hazardous?
The average operating age of nuclear plants in Germany was 30+ years old. Yes they’re not built to modern safety standards. Yes, operating with radioactive materials is more dangerous than not doing that. But they still ended with a minimal impact to climate change over their lifetime.
If you want sensational claims about energy saftey you can write a whole expose about working conditions in Xinjiang, which produces 45% of all of solar grade polysilicone. Are those deaths less important because they didn’t happen in your neighborhood?
So yes, it’s political because a handful of human deaths override an energy technology that is, mathematically, one of the best tools to save our planet. Throwing away nuclear energy because people can get preventable cancer is like throwing away wind energy because an aluminum blade can drop on your head.
interesting perspective. those lives you are willing to sacrifice; tell me more. can that shit be build in your backyard and stored for a million years? go water plants with mountain dew.
It’s very telling that you think I should be more concerned about my backyard and neighbors rather than the billions of people who will suffer while we try to dig our way out of this pit with more palatable tech that can’t do the whole job.
Also funny that you think having a radioactive hole in the ground that loses the majority of its potency in less than 100 years is too high a price to keep our planet habitable. I’d rather be relocated out of my neighborhood than deal with billions of climate refugees moving in. Your NIMBY-ass logic is why our planet is fucked.
yawn. i still see no reason or argument
nuclear energy was 2% of all electricity before my country phased out. poor or stupid countries might be able to convince their ppl that this cant be substituted. 2 fucking percent. that is nothing.
dunno where your brain was when you shifted to rich people…but especially if you do no like oligarchs you should be against nuclear. they hardly create jobs but big revenue for the owner.
please wake up from your feverdream
So you yawn when people in Xinjiang died making your solar panels? It seems you don’t treat people in third world countries as fellow humans, for some reason.
what a great joke. pat yourself on the back once again. if you wouldnt be such a wanker buying from china…bam…problem solved.
I don’t see you denying looking at people from third world country as less than human. I guess I was right, then?
Also, if I wouldn’t be such a wanker buying from China, problem solved? What is this sentence structure even supposed to convey? It seems lack of education goes along well with your superiority complex.
I assume it’s supposed to mean magically find the raw materials and production somewhere else? These people have no rational thought, they can’t even put 2 and 2 together and see why solar is cheaper.
Why do these people have such frothing opposition to nuclear? You’d think a meltdown killed their whole family, but somehow only at 2% coverage.
They bought the oil lobby’s ancient anti-nuclear propoganda hook-line-and-sinker and don’t care about any of the actual data. But I’m the shill 🙄